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The All-Electric Home in Pakistan: Solar, Battery, EV Charger and Induction Cooking
Short answer
An all-electric home runs its cooking, hot water, cooling and car on electricity instead of gas and petrol, with rooftop solar supplying as much of it as possible. It works best when the heavy loads are moved into solar hours, the battery is kept for the evening house load rather than the car, and the connection, usually three-phase, is sized for everything together. The order you plan it in matters more than any single piece of equipment.
This guide shows how the parts fit together. Each part has its own detailed guide, linked as we go: EV charger installation, cooking on solar, water heating options and running ACs on solar.
Why families are going all-electric
Three things have pushed the idea forward in Punjab:
- Gas has become less dependable. Many areas get piped gas only in set daily windows in winter. SNGPL's December 2025 to February 2026 schedule, for example, gave domestic users three supply windows a day. LPG costs more and must be carried in.
- Electric cars and bikes are arriving. A car charged at home becomes the largest single load in the house.
- Solar changed the economics of daytime power. Under net billing, exported units are credited at a much lower rate than the units you buy(/guides/net-metering-net-billing-pakistan/)]. Using your own solar at home is usually worth more than exporting it. Electric cooking and car charging are two of the easiest ways to use it.
The all-electric home
Cooking
Induction
Water
Heat pump or electric geyser
Power
Solar and battery
The five parts of an all-electric home
| Part | What it replaces | When it naturally runs | Plan for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rooftop solar | Grid units in daytime | Daylight | Roof space, structure, inverter size |
| Battery storage | Grid units and load-shedding gaps in the evening | Evening and night | kWh for the house, not the car |
| EV charger | Petrol | Flexible: midday if the car is home | Charger power vs spare solar; connection |
| Induction or electric cooking | Piped gas and LPG | Meal times: midday is easy, evening needs battery | Inverter surge and evening kWh |
| Electric water heating (heat pump or electric geyser) | Gas geyser | Flexible with a storage tank | Heat in midday, store for morning |
Air conditioning is already electric in most homes, but it is the load that sets summer sizing, so it belongs in the same plan.
Step 1: Build a daily load profile
Write down what each load uses in kWh per day and, more importantly, when. If kW and kWh are new to you, the short version is: kW is how fast, kWh is how much.
Example arithmetic only, with round illustrative numbers. A family in a 1-kanal house might plan:
| Load | Illustrative daily energy | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Cooking (induction, three meals) | about 3 kWh | Breakfast, lunch, dinner |
| Electric car (40 km a day) | about 7 kWh | Midday if parked at home; otherwise evening |
| Hot water (winter, heat pump) | about 4 kWh | Midday heating, stored for morning |
| Fans, fridge, lights, pumps, electronics | about 10 kWh | Spread across the day |
| ACs (summer only) | 20 kWh or more | Afternoon and night |
These are not your numbers. Use your electricity bill, appliance labels and car specification to build your own, or use our solar calculator as a starting point. A home energy monitor makes this far more accurate; see tracking your home's loads.
Step 2: Move what you can into solar hours
The best-value kWh is one your panels make and you use at once. Loads that can move to daylight:
- Car charging on days the car is home, scheduled for late morning to mid-afternoon. See charging an EV with home solar.
- Water heating with a storage tank, heated at midday and used next morning.
- Lunch and evening prep cooking, washing machine, dishwasher, water pump.
- Pre-cooling rooms in the afternoon so ACs work less at night.
Our load management guide explains how to stagger heavy appliances so they do not all start at once.
Step 3: Size the battery for the house, not the car
A car battery is many times larger than most home batteries. Charging the car from the home battery at night empties it fast and wears it for little benefit. The usual plan:
- the home battery covers evening cooking, lights, fans, the fridge and some AC;
- the car charges from midday solar, or from the grid at night if it was away all day.
How many kWh you need for the evening and night depends on the loads you choose to back up. Our guide to batteries for a full night of backup works through night-only scenarios. For storage we supply Huawei, Sungrow and Luminey batteries, with the manufacturer's warranty for each product.
Step 4: Check the inverter can start and carry the loads
Electric cooking and an EV charger are both large, steady loads. An induction hob can draw a couple of kW per zone; a home car charger commonly draws about 7 kW. Together with ACs, that can exceed a mid-size inverter's continuous rating. Points we check:
- Continuous rating of the inverter against the evening load you want to run from the battery.
- Battery discharge rate, so the battery can actually deliver that power.
- Which loads are on backup. The EV charger is usually kept on the grid side, not the backed-up side, so it cannot drain the battery or overload the inverter in a power cut.
- Phase balance in three-phase homes, so the cooker, charger and ACs are spread across phases.
Larger homes may need a three-phase hybrid inverter or more than one inverter. See three-phase vs single-phase inverters.
Step 5: Get the connection right
An all-electric home adds several kW of load. Before buying anything, check:
- Sanctioned load. If your total exceeds it, apply to increase your sanctioned load.
- Phase. Many all-electric homes are better on a three-phase supply, both for the load and because net billing is open to three-phase consumers. See single-phase to three-phase conversion.
- Distribution board. Dedicated circuits with correctly rated breakers and earth-leakage protection for the cooker, charger and water heater. See breakers and protection.
- Solar size. Size panels for your daytime use first, as our net billing sizing guide explains.
What order to do it in
You do not have to do everything at once. A sensible sequence:
- Connection upgrade and distribution board, if needed.
- Solar with a hybrid, battery-ready inverter sized for the final plan.
- Induction cooking and water heating, moving those loads to midday where possible.
- EV charger when the car arrives.
- Battery, or more battery, once you have a few months of real usage data.
Planning the inverter and connection for the final picture at the start avoids paying twice. For a broader look at how far solar can carry a home, see can you run your whole house on solar.
Safety in an all-electric home
- Every heavy appliance on its own circuit, never on extension leads or multi-plugs.
- A tested earth and earth-leakage protection on the cooker, charger and water heater circuits.
- Batteries installed in a ventilated, shaded spot away from the kitchen.
- Electrical work done by qualified electricians only.
How Solar Works Pakistan can help
We design the whole picture together: solar, hybrid inverter, battery, EV charger and the circuits for cooking and hot water. EV charger installation is one of our services, carried out by our own teams. Engineering and design are done in-house, and we treat each home as a custom design based on its load, roof, budget and expansion plans. See our installation services.
Small residential projects are normally completed in about a week, subject to payment, equipment availability and site readiness. Our installation work carries a 1-year service warranty under the applicable project terms, our structures carry a 3-year structure warranty, and we target sending service personnel within 48 hours of a registered complaint.
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Frequently asked questions
Can a house in Pakistan run completely without gas?
Yes, technically. Cooking, hot water and heating can all run on electricity. The practical questions are whether your connection and inverter can carry the extra load and how much of it you can move into solar hours.
Should I charge my electric car from my home battery?
Usually not. A car needs far more energy than most home batteries store, so the battery empties fast and wears for little gain. Charge the car from midday solar when possible and keep the battery for the house in the evening.
Do I need a three-phase connection for an all-electric home?
Not always, but it is often sensible. Adding a cooker, EV charger and water heater to ACs can exceed a typical single-phase load, and three-phase also opens net billing. We check this at the site survey.
How big a solar system does an all-electric home need?
It depends on your daily load profile and how much you shift into daylight. Size the panels for daytime use first, then decide on battery size for the evening. The example on this page shows the method, not a standard size.
Can I cook on solar in the evening?
Yes, if your battery and inverter are sized for it. Evening cooking is one of the main reasons to include a battery in an all-electric plan. Plan the kWh and the inverter's continuous rating together.
Is it better to add everything at once?
Not necessarily. Many families upgrade the connection and install a battery-ready solar system first, then add the EV charger and more storage later. The key is choosing an inverter and connection sized for the final plan.
Sources
- Profit (Pakistan Today), "SNGPL issues winter gas schedule for Punjab, KP with three daily supply windows" (8 Dec 2025)